UTHSC In the Media

UT Health Science Center Launches Resources Website to Support Health Care Workers Battling COVID-19

Published by The Tennessee Tribune
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The University of Tennessee Health Science Center has launched a resources website designed to help health care workers and first responders take better care of themselves, after spending more than a year and a half on the front lines of the battle against COVID-19. The Resources for Health Care Workers website, uthsc.edu/coronavirus/healthcare-workers-resources.php, offers links to resources for immediate… Read More

Answers to COVID Questions Follow the Science, Not a Wish List

Published by Daily Memphian
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By Sept. 3, 2021, the COVID-19 pandemic had produced a staggering 220 million cases worldwide and claimed some 4.5 million lives. Just in Shelby County, there have been more than 127,500 confirmed or probable cases of COVID-19 and nearly 1,900 deaths. But in these 18 months, uncertainty has been as prevalent and transmissible as the… Read More

Congressman Cohen Announces Sickle Cell Anemia Research Grant to the University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Published by Foreign Affairs
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Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) today announced that the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) will receive a $705,287 grant from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute for research predicting the progression of chronic kidney disease in sickle cell anemia using machine learning models.

6-Year-Old Girl Hospitalized with COVID-Related Illness Needs Blood Platelets

Published by WREG
WREG

A community is sending an urgent request tonight as a little girl is hospitalized at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital. Six-year-old Hattie Lucille Shell is battling a condition brought on by COVID-19 that causes body parts and organs to become inflamed. She’s been in the ICU for about a month. “What we see is that a… Read More

COVID Patients Break More Records

Published by Daily Memphian
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Tennessee now tops the nation with the highest number of cases per 100,000 people, in adult and pediatric cases. For a brief period around noon on Thursday, every ambulance in the city was busy. “That means they have to drop off patients and go and not be able to stay and help us take care… Read More

Orleans Station to Move Forward with Exterior Renovations

Published by Daily Memphian
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Developers of Orleans Station, the proposed 10.2-acre mixed-use development in the Medical District, have the go-ahead to begin exterior renovations to the shopping strip that once housed the Trolley Stop restaurant. Orleans Station will have a residential component, including 372 apartments, in a collaboration with the University of Tennessee Health Science Center to redevelop the Medical… Read More

Man Suspected in Auto Parts Theft at UT Garage Tries to Cover his Tracks by Spray-Painting Own Car, Police Say

Published by WREG
WREG

UTHSC campus police say a man painted his entire car with black spray paint and attached drive-out tags, but that didn’t stop them from connecting the vehicle to a recent auto part theft at the school. UTHSC police said Steven Reynolds, 29, was arrested after one of their officers spotted his car in the parking… Read More

Here’s How Life-and-Death Decisions Could Soon be Made at Memphis Hospitals

Published by The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal

The strain on Memphis hospitals continued to worsen this week, raising the once-inconceivable possibility that hospitals could be forced to triage care based on the probability of survival. Mentions UTHSC’s Dr. Richard Walker.